You're going to be waiting a long time then. Verizon's preliminary projection for when they can turn their CDMA network off is currently 2023.

2021, but not a whole lot of difference to most people here. The positive side is they should be rolling out VoLTE in 2013 and expect to have 100% of their CDMA coverage also running LTE in 2014, so with any luck we could start seeing well served LTE only devices much sooner than the next decade. 2021 is probably when the last of their contracted services on CDMA run out.

Ugh...did it really sell out in the US already? I too had it in my cart and kept having errors processing the request. I hope it doesn't take a long time for them to restock. I dropped my Galaxy Nexus a couple weeks back and smashed the screen, this was going to finally replace it!

Well I have two sitting in transaction list marked as "canceled". I've updated my CC info a few times and it won't change, so I guess I'll just leave it alone for now.

Edit: Ok, I didn't leave it alone and tried a different card. My discover was being canceled immediately, my mastercard went through and it's now "pending". It seems you may still be able to get one if you are quick. I used this chrome plugin.

Engadget commenters told me to spam refresh until I could add it to the card, and then click to pay for it immediately. The first couple of times I tried to uncheck "associate this with my Google account" once I managed to get one in my cart, but it would end up removing the device instead. So when I got it a third time, I managed to pay for it (even while adding a new card) and I have an email receipt.

So fingers crossed, I'll actually get one.

Then, more fingers crossed, I'll be able to "disassociate" it from my Google account, since I'm buying this for my mom (I'm a Windows Phone guy).

Engadget commenters told me to spam refresh until I could add it to the card, and then click to pay for it immediately. The first couple of times I tried to uncheck "associate this with my Google account" once I managed to get one in my cart, but it would end up removing the device instead. So when I got it a third time, I managed to pay for it (even while adding a new card) and I have an email receipt.

So fingers crossed, I'll actually get one.

Then, more fingers crossed, I'll be able to "disassociate" it from my Google account, since I'm buying this for my mom (I'm a Windows Phone guy).

Was this long after 9am Pacific Time? I haven't seen the "Add to cart" option after about 9:05am even with much refreshing...

Engadget commenters told me to spam refresh until I could add it to the card, and then click to pay for it immediately. The first couple of times I tried to uncheck "associate this with my Google account" once I managed to get one in my cart, but it would end up removing the device instead. So when I got it a third time, I managed to pay for it (even while adding a new card) and I have an email receipt.

So fingers crossed, I'll actually get one.

Then, more fingers crossed, I'll be able to "disassociate" it from my Google account, since I'm buying this for my mom (I'm a Windows Phone guy).

Was this long after 9am Pacific Time? I haven't seen the "Add to cart" option after about 9:05am even with much refreshing...

I got an order through a little over an hour ago that still shows as pending.

I think I may have gotten lucky earlier today. I got pretty far at one point, but the web page never completed the sale. I checked my CC account and there was a hold on there from Google for the price of the device +tax and shipping. About 20 mins later it showed up in my Google Wallet, and 20 mins after that I received a confirmation email. I hope it really went through and not stuck in some sort of order limbo since I never got a confirmation from the site when it was trying to process it.

Finally got my 16GB. I hit f5 approximately 4,384 times. I got it in my cart maybe fifteen times, but it would give me an error when I clicked "proceed". Finally, around 1:30, it went through, got a confirmation email, got a hold on my amex, the whole deal.

I had to be in court at 2, so yeah, that was timely... even if I _was_ late for court

To be clear, the phone is not sold out. You just need to refresh like a maniac. They are releasing one every few seconds or so, and there are thousands (tens of thousands?) of people refreshing the page.

Just FYI the Chrome plugin 'Page Monitor' works really well for this. It will refresh a page every 5 seconds and notify you on any change. I could have bought 4-5 8GB phones today after being notified by Page Monitor, but I was hoping to get a 16GB (which never went back in stock in Canada after the initial morning rush).

Apple are no less guilty of exactly the same tactics though. Generate an enormous buzz, get people physically queuing outside of places, then completely sell out within a few days. Apparently the iPhone5 had a production run of 2 million which sold out by pre-order.

Given the Nexus4 is considerably cheaper, it's unsurprising there's a massive demand for it.